Comments on: 10 Questions With Sathy

By: Mike Stephens

Mike Stephens — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:54:57 +0000

I agree that the field updates are very informative and helpful!!! Thanks!!!

By: Sarah F.

Sarah F. — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:53:21 +0000

I agree with everybody that more detailed updates would be nice. Letters, especially from younger children, tend to be very general. I have found I get more detail in letters written for the child by a project worker (for example, that she is not yet saved. Obviously the child isn’t going to tell you that!). Also, I think yearly photos would be nice. Children change so much in two years! The next time I get a picture of my one child she will have gone from 10 to 12, a big jump.

By: Barbara M.

Barbara M. — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:30:36 +0000

I so agree with Vicki! More personalized updates would be so helpful. I too get the responses that are very brief from the children and it does make it harder to encourage them especially when their letters are so vague. Comments and updates from the staff would be so helpful. I’m always amazed that the children always seem so “fine” to quote them. Really???

By: crystalgib

crystalgib — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:41:44 +0000

thanks for the post “the 10″ is by far my fav blog. I love to hear the field perspective.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:29:40 +0000

Vicki,
I’m with you: the more personalized the updates, the better!

But, I have noticed that when the pictures are updated, the case study profiles on the website *are* updated as well. It’s just that the pictures are the only thing that are actually sent out to the sponsors.

Another thing I’ve done that has been helpful is to e-mail the Compassion staff and ask for my sponsored children’s best/favorite subject in school — they were able to supply that information for the majority of my children. (There have been a couple of times that they had not been given that information.)

Maybe you can get more information through one of those routes…

By: Juli Jarvis

Juli Jarvis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:18:24 +0000

Thank you so much! Great questions and answers! We appreciate you Sathy!

By: Vicki Small

Vicki Small — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:11:41 +0000

Thank you for the answers in this post. I’m putting in my vote for more detailed and personalized updates, whenever they are done. When I first began sponsoring, I received a letter telling me how one of my girls in DR was progressing. A couple of years later, I received a more generalized letter; since then, I get the updated photos, and that’s all, from each of the countries where we sponsor children.

Please don’t say, “Ask your sponsored child.” I’ve asked my girls in DR how they’re doing in school, and I got, “Fine” or “Okay.” It’s hard to know how to encourage them, when we get no information.